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The Benefits and Cost of Firm-Specific Investment Grants: A Study of Five Federal Programs

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This paper attempts to identify the costs and benefits of programs of firm-specific investment grants. The benefits arise from a divergence between private and social returns, such as might occur when new products are created or when workers are employed in depressed regions. The primary cost is the leisure, consumption and investment foregone as a result of the tax required to finance the grants, which is compounded by the deadweight loss in tax collection. The existence of a program of subsidies might generate wasteful rent-seeking behaviour of would-be recipients.

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  • Dan Usher, 1982. "The Benefits and Cost of Firm-Specific Investment Grants: A Study of Five Federal Programs," Working Paper 511, Economics Department, Queen's University.
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    1. Filip Palda, 2001. "Election Finance Regulation in Emerging Democracies: Lessons from Canada and the U.S," Public Economics 0111010, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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